"Solidarity is always intentional, always messy." Pancho Argüelles is the executive director of the Living Hope Wheelchair Association, a community-based organization of migrants with spinal cord injuries. Born in Mexico City, for more than thirty years now he has...
Podcasts
When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough
On April 12, 2013 as Taylor Schumann was beginning her work day working at the New River Community College in Christiansburg, Virginia, a gunman walked in and shot her. She survived, but not without deep scars both physical and psychological. How does one recover from...
Beauty from Ashes
What is the relationship between justice and beauty, repair and renewal? What inspires us to create? Mako Fujimura, an artist, and his wife, Haejin Shim, a lawyer, together are building a richer understanding of the interdependencies here, interdependencies that we...
Love is a Neural Highway
Love and science don't always make easy conversation partners, but Amy O'Dell has found a way to make them at once intelligible to each other, and transformative for the lives of children and their families. Here is her story, and the story of Jacob's Ladder. Read...
Whole People, Whole Educations
How can institutions be transformational, not simply transactional? What is higher education, specifically, doing to meet the hungers of a generation increasingly adamant that "the whole person" be acknowledged and respected? Dr. Nathan Hatch is the president of Wake...
Committing the Commons to Solidarity & Repair
How might we each play a role in sowing a more woven, widely shared commons? Father Jack Wall and Joe Boland have spent years walking in solidarity with people from some of America's poorest communities to build up vibrant and transformative communities of faith....
Reviving the Power of Place
Many young people are attracted to the glitz and opportunity of bigger cities, taking their talents away from their hometowns—and draining some of the soul and pride from those “forgotten” cities. Benya Kraus and Joe Nail are founders of Lead for America, an...
Community Resilience in the Wake of Trauma
On November 8, 2018, a massive fire was triggered in northern California and decimated the town of Paradise and surrounding mountain communities in less than half a day. Nearly two years later, as the nation grapples with urgent questions around community resilience...
Race, Relationships, and Repentance
Bridge-building and breaking down barriers can sound innocuous enough, even praiseworthy, but what’s the underside of the embroidered tapestry? Dwan Dandridge and Chris Lambert have been doing this work in Detroit for some years now, and aren’t afraid of the mess....
Reformed Rascals, and a Lesson for the Rest of Us
Sometimes it’s the people we assume are the most broken that have the most to teach. The Other Side Academy is a life-training school for people with long criminal and addiction histories. Students commit to a minimum of a two-year residency — many as an alternative...